Cases of Deadly Fungus Tripled in Past Few Years, CDC Says
Cases of Candida auris have tripled from 2019 to 2021, according to national surveillance data. After first being detected in the U.S. in 2016, annual clinical case counts increased to 476 in 2019, then to 756 in 2020 (a 59% jump), and then to 1,471 in 2021 (an additional 95% increase), reported Meghan Lyman, MD, […]